Queenslanders See The Real LNP.

A media release from opposition Labor Leader:

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says a succession of opinion polls show the LNP and Premier Campbell Newman have breached the trust Queenslanders placed in them just five months ago.

“While individual opinion polls come and go, the unmistakable trend in recent results points to the LNP’s fundamental breach of trust with the electorate,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

“Queenslanders have had five months to see the real face of the LNP and they will not be fooled by any future attempts to spin a friendlier image of a government that has been exposed as arrogant, callous and out of touch.”

Ms Palaszczuk said a significant finding in the latest Galaxy poll in today’s Courier-Mail was the failure of the LNP’s blame game on the state’s finances.

“For five months the Premier, Treasurer and every other LNP Minister and MP have been talking down our state and trying to blame the previous government for the LNP’s mass sackings and cuts to frontline services,” she said.

“They have heard the Premier liken Queensland to Spain, and have heard him talk about us being on a ‘high dive into the abyss’. Treasurer Tim Nicholls has spoken about the state going off Niagara Falls and he spins a horror story at home but tells the truth when talking to overseas investors.

“Queenslanders have not been fooled, especially when they see five LNP Ministers and MPs having to admit in State Parliament about their false statements peddling the ‘$100 billion debt’ myth fabricated by the Costello Audit.”

Ms Palaszczuk said the latest poll results showed Queenslanders were disappointed and angry at the LNP government and Premier who had stopped listening and were refusing to take the community’s concerns on board.

“The results show a massive disappointment with the LNP and are a damning indictment on not only the Premier but on all LNP Members of Parliament for their support of mass sackings and the slash-and-burn approach to frontline services,” she said.

“This is a government that gleefully continues to repeat that it will sack 20,000 public sector workers, and it continues to bandy about sacking figures without taking into account that behind each of those numbers is a family that must put food on the table, pay the rent or the mortgage and put their kids through school.

“This has been a horrifying, frightening five months for all Queenslanders and the results of that are reflected in this poll.”

Ms Palaszczuk said the Labor Party was doing what the LNP wasn’t — listening to people and raising their concerns about the LNP's job cuts, loss of frontline services, the stripping away of job security and the impacts those are having on state, regional and local economies.